Description
This sweeping history recounts the decades-long struggle between Athens and Sparta that fractured the Greek world and reshaped the course of Western civilization. Drawing on political, military, and social history, it examines the ambitions, rivalries, strategic decisions, and human costs that propelled the conflict from uneasy tension into devastating war. The narrative brings classical Greece vividly to life while exploring enduring themes of power, leadership, democracy, imperial overreach, and the consequences of political miscalculation. Lively and rigorously researched, it offers general readers both a compelling account of a vanished world and a timeless study of conflict among competing states.
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paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2004
511 pages
ISBN: 9780142004371
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan.